Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40416 — Reports on the tribulation

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: Woe to the Arabs from an evil that has drawn near. It will come close. By Allah, that evil will reach them faster than a lean, swift horse. It will be a blind, unrecognizable fitnah, in which a man will be upon one thing in the morning and upon another in the evening. The one sitting in it will be better than the one standing, the one standing in it will be better than the one walking, and the one walking in it will be better than the one running. If I were to tell you everything I know, you would cut my neck from here. And he made a motion on his neck with the edge of his palm. (Then he said:) O Allah, let Abu Hurayrah not live to see the rule of boys. And he raised both his hands until he turned their backs toward the inside of his palm.